debian · CVE-2025-6966

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:44:39 GMT

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CVE-2025-6966 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (python-apt), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2.

Description:

NULL pointer dereference in TagSection.keys() in python-apt on APT-based Linux systems allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted deb822 file with a malformed non-UTF-8 key.

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